Difficulties in the management of superior vena caval obstruction in young adults.

Case records of 50 patients of superior vena caval obstruction in young adults treated and followed-up at Radiotherapy Department, Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta have been looked into. Twenty-eight out of these 50 patients had disease confined to mediastinum only during presentation. In consideration of the fact that the optimum management of superior vena caval obstruction depends upon a balance between just adequate pretreatment investigation and early institution of treatment, the various difficulties in the management discussed.

Clinical profile of acute diarrhoea cases infected with the new epidemic strain of Vibrio cholerae O139: designation of the disease as cholera.

A total of 113 patients suffering from acute watery diarrhoea caused by the novel epidemic strain of Vibrio cholerae non-O1, currently assigned to a new serogroup O139, were investigated in order to determine the clinical presentation of the new epidemic strain causing outbreaks of cholera-like infection in the Indian subcontinent. Estimations of electrolyte concentration in serum and stool were also performed in a representative number of the above cases. The clinical features and blood and stool biochemical parameters of V.

Eating epilepsy: a study of twenty cases.

Twenty cases of eating epilepsy have been studied over a period of 5 years (1985-1989). Males outnumbered females (4:1). Heavy meal comprising conventional Indian diet (viz, rice, vegetables, etc), was found to be the most important provocating factor (14 out of 20 cases).

Atypical lymphoid hyperplasia (lymphoid tumour of indeterminate nature) of orbit--a case report.

Atypical lymphoid hyperplasia, a rare variety of orbital tumour occurring in a 60 year old male patient is presented with review of literature with special relation to its diagnostic and prognostic difficulties.